Job description
About us
Owkin is building the first universal AI Operating System called K to lay the foundation for Biological Artificial Superintelligence (BASI). This OS integrates a suite of AI agents that decode complex biology, accelerate research, and dramatically increase productivity. Acting as copilots, Owkin K agents will automate drug discovery and diagnostics and power next-gen pharma companies.
Owkin’s OS will be powered by the world’s largest federated multimodal patient data network, a robotized lab, leading AGI technologies, and cutting-edge multimodal foundation models and LLMs.
About the role:
As a Backend Software Engineer in the Data Infrastructure team at Owkin, you will be at the heart of our mission to accelerate data-driven biomedical discoveries at scale. You will contribute to building and maintaining scalable data management and processing systems on AWS that handle complex datasets throughout their lifecycle, while maintaining the highest standards of privacy, security and compliance.
In particular, you will:
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure and services on AWS at the intersection of data engineering and AI tools
- Contribute to the design and evolution of our data architecture to support large-scale data processing while ensuring granular data access controls and security compliance
- Collaborate with data engineers, researchers and data scientists to understand their needs and implement solutions that enhance their productivity
- Support and improve our CI/CD pipelines, development workflows, and security practices
- Participate in incident response to ensure high availability and reliability
- Contribute to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data
Impact on stakeholders:
- Data Engineers: Working in the same engineering group, you will collaborate closely with them to provide powerful data services and tools, for example Airflow deployment and cloud data management optimizations
- Bioinformaticians, data scientists and researchers: you will help create a user-friendly environment that accelerates their work through streamlined data access, efficient processing, and seamless project collaboration
- Owkin partners: you will strengthen Owkin’s data network with academic partners by enabling them to share their data securely and easily
This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud computing, data engineering and software engineering.
Position is based in our Paris or Nantes offices or remotely in France.
About you
More than a list of requirements, we are looking for a skilled individual with a “can do” mindset, able to mobilize their experience to deliver value as part of a team. Autonomy in learning and delivering is valued as much as being able to embrace the culture and processes.
Required qualifications / experience:
- Significant experience as software engineer contributing on cloud infrastructure: this is an intermediate level position
- Experience with either python or golang
- Management of AWS infrastructure as code, using terraform
- Strong experience in Docker
- Experience in architectural design of complex systems, especially for complex data at scale
- Demonstrated attention to quality and software engineering processes, including observability and security: we run what we build
- Full professional proficiency in English: our team is distributed across Europe
Preferred qualifications/bonus:
- Familiarity with Kubernetes
- Experience in Data Engineering
- Experience with MLOps practices
- Frontend skills
- Knowledge in healthcare or biomedical domains
Please submit your CV in English
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What we offer
- Flexible work organization
- Friendly and informal working environment
- Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds
Recruitment Process & Security
- Please complete the form and submit your CV.
- Owkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.
- Owkin is a great place to work. As a coveted workplace we are, unfortunately, vulnerable to recruitment phishing scams. We urge all job seekers and candidates to be wary of potential scams. Most of these have individuals posing as representatives of prominent companies, including Owkin, with the aim of obtaining personal, sensitive, or financial information from applicants. These scams prey upon an individual’s desire to obtain a job and can sometimes “feel” like a genuine recruitment process. Some red flags are identified below. Should you encounter a recruitment process that claims to be for Owkin but is not consistent with the below, please do not provide any personal or financial information:
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